Twenty-five years ago, the so-called New Democrats were triumphant. Today, their political heirs are eager to prevent the Democratic Party from living up to its name. At stake is whether democracy will have a chance to function.
A fundamental battle for democracy is in progressโa conflict over whether to reduce the number of superdelegates to the partyโs national convention in 2020, or maybe even eliminate them entirely. That struggle is set to reach a threshold at a party committee meeting next week and then be decided by the full Democratic National Committee before the end of this summer.
Kuti unzwisise mitsara yehondo yemukati yeDemocratic Party uye chii chiri panjodzi, zvakakosha kuti tizive kuti takasvika sei pano.
Mushure memakore gumi nemaviri ehutungamiriri hwakashata hweRepublican, Bill Clinton nemukwikwidzi Al Gore vakaratidza kuve tikiti rebato rebato reDemocratic Party. Clinton akagara muWhite House kutanga kwa1993 semutungamiri weNew Democrats. Nhepfenyuro dzakawanda dzakamurumbidza semuoni akakunda rusununguko rwekuruboshwe kuti agadzirise bato.
Although candidate Clinton had criticized Republican trickle-down economics and spoken about the need for public investment by the federal government, as president he proceeded along the lines of what Washington Post economics reporter Hobart Rowan described as a formula of โfiscal conservatism and social liberalism.โ That formula provided a template that the next Democratic president, Barack Obama, deftly filled.
VaClinton naObama vese vaive vadiki uye vaitaura, kufema kwemweya mutsva mushure mekusemesa vatsigiri veRepublican muWhite House. Zvakadaro vatungamiri vedu vaviri vemazuva ano veDemocratic vaive pasi nesimba remubatanidzwa - kwete kusvika pazasi seGOP, asi zvakadaro mukumhanya kweWall Street nemabhangi makuru.
Kubva pakutanga kwehutongi hwaClinton naObama, vagadzwa vepamusoro vakaratidza uye vakakurudzira kuremekedzwa kwesimba reoligarchic. Robert Rubin akabva pakuva sachigaro weGoldman Sachs (akabhadhara madhora miriyoni gumi nemanomwe muna 17) kuenda kunoshandira zvakapfuma semutungamiriri weClinton's National Economic Council, chinzvimbo chaive nesimba zvekuti chakamupa zita rekuti "mambo wezvehupfumi." Makore maviri gare gare, Rubin akatanga basa refu semunyori wehomwe, achitsiva aimbova seneta weTexas uye chishandiso chikuru chebhizinesi Lloyd Bentsen. Vaingove vaviri vevazhinji vevashandi vemakambani munzvimbo dzepamusoro dzehutongi hwaClinton.
โRon Brown, corporate lawyer and lobbyist for American Express and Duvalierโs Haiti, would supervise a Clinton industrial policy at the Department of Commerce,โ economic analyst Doug Henwood wrote after eight months of Clintonโs presidency. โMickey Kantor, corporate lawyer, would negotiate trade deals. Warren Christopher, corporate lawyer, would oversee the New World Order. Hillary Rodham Clinton, corporate lawyer and board member at Walmart, the low-wage retailer thatโs destroyed countless rural downtowns, would supervise health care.โ
Nepo rudzi irworwo rwemutsara rwakakwira zvakanyanya nezvido zvine mari, kuita kwayo gwara kwaizoguma kwave kutyaira pakati peDemocratic Party nevashandi. Chokwadi vakomana vaityaira chitima chehupfumi chaClinton vakada North American Free Trade Agreement. Nei vaisadaro? Vashandi vaiva mari, kwete vanhu. Madhiri ekutengeserana emakambani aive purofiti inowedzera.
Masvondo mushure mekusundidzira NAFTA kuburikidza neCongress nemubatanidzwa wemaRepublicans nemaDemocrats ane hushamwari hwemakambani, Clinton akasaina chibvumirano chekutengeserana muna Zvita 1993 - danho rakanga risingafarirwe nevavhoti vevashandi mumapoka ezvematongerwo enyika. Kwapera gore, maRepublicans akawana kutonga kweImba yeVamiriri, GOP yakabata muviri iyo yakaenda isina kukanganiswa kwemakore gumi nemaviri.
Mukati metemu yake yekutanga, zvakaitwa naClinton kuti ashumire vakuru vezvehupfumi zvakapfuura NAFTA kubatanidza mutemo unokosha weTelecommunications Act wa1996. Gore rimwe chetero, akatasva masaisai aisanganisira pasi pasi pekushoropodza uye rusaruraganda, Clinton akapemberera kusaina kwake "reform" yehutano hwakanaka. bhiri mumutemo. Mutemo uyu wakagadzira kumhanyisa kwegoridhe kune vezvenhau kuti vawedzere nhepfenyuro, nepo vakadzi vanotambira mari shoma vakawana matambudziko avo emari achiwedzera kuoma.
Nekushungurudzika pamusoro pemutemo mutsva wehutano, imwe yeavo vakabatikana vachipokana nekunzwa kwekambani muClinton Cabinet, Munyori weVashandi Robert Reich, vakabuda pakapera temu yekutanga. Zvichakadaro, Clinton akawedzera zvakapetwa pakusarudza boka rakasimba revashandi vehurumende. "The firm-er, team-ichiri kuwedzera vanobatana-er, nhengo," Nguva yakashuma muna Zvita 1996, tichinyora ruzhinji rwevabhengi vekudyara, magweta anoshamwaridzana nemusika uye vane mari vakapfuma vaive vasvika pazvinzvimbo zvakakosha.
Vachangosvika โhavasi kurongerwa zvikepe, uye ndizvo chaizvo zvinodiwa neWall Street,โ imwe nyanzvi yezveupfumi pane imwe kambani yemabhanga yakaudza magazini yacho. Mumakore ekupedzisira ehutungamiriri hwake, timu yehupfumi yaClinton yakagadzirisa zvisina kufanira Wall Street deregulation, kugadzira nzira nekuda kwekuparara kwemari kwe2007-2008.
Kufanana kwezvematongerwo enyika pakati pemaitiro ePresident Clinton naObama muhofisi - uye njodzi dzesarudzo dzakazoitika kumaDemocrats - dzakanyanya. Makore maviri chete mubasa ravo rekushandira America sevatungamiri, vepasi vakashaya rutsigiro kubva kuDemocratic base zvekuti muzviitiko zvese izvi maDemocrat akatadza kutonga Congress.
Vachisvika muOval Office apo dambudziko guru remari richityisidzira dzimba dzemamiriyoni, VaObama vakaenderera mberi nekubvisa mabhanga makuru, vachipa rubatsiro rushoma kuvanhu vane dzimba "pasi pemvura" uye vakatarisana nekubirwa.
Kwete zvakangoitika, saClinton, Obama akazadza Kabhineti yake neWall Street favourites. Munyori wake wekutanga wehomwe aive Rubin protรฉgรฉ Timothy Geithner. Munguva yechipiri yaObama temu, basa rakaenda kuna Jack Lew, aimbove mukuru wepamusoro ane budiriro kubva 2006 kusvika 2008. chaisanganisira kutarisira "Chikwata cheCitigroup chakaita mari nekubheja pamusika wedzimba apo chaigadzirira kukwira."
Muchokwadi, kuita pundutso kubva mukuiswa kwedzimba muna 2008 kwaive kuenderana nezvakabatsira kuti sarudzo yaObama kuve mutungamiri wenyika igoneke. Muna 2007, mushandirapamwe wake wakagadzirwa nemafuta zvipo zvakawanda kubva kumabhangi makuru ekudyara eWall Street. Uye kupfuura chero ani zvake, mutsigiri wake wezvemari mukutsvaga Imba yeWhite House aive Penny Pritzker, bhirionari mukuru wezvivakwa uyo. purofiti yakanaka kubva muna 2008 subprime mortgage njodzi yakawira vanhu vakawanda vekuAmerica vane mari yakaderera uye ine mwero, chikamu chikuru chevanhu vane ruvara.
Muna 2013, Obama akaita Pritzker munyori wezvekutengeserana, chigaro chaakabata kusvika pakupera kwehutungamiriri hwake. Pavanhu vose kuti vasarudze nokuda kwebasa iroro reKabhineti, akasarudza mumwe munhu ane hupfumi hunofungidzirwa hunopfuura mabhiriyoni maviri emadhora uyo achangobva kuitika kuva mutsigiri wezvemari wepamusoro webasa rake rezvematongerwo enyika.
Mushure mekusarudzwa patsva, VaObama vakarasikirwa nekufarira komiti yeDemocratic National Committee, vachisiya hupfumi hwayo mumatope panguva iyo sarudzo dza2016 dzakatenderera. Uye, sekuyerwa nemavhoti, Democratic base yakaparara munyika yose. Mumakore masere aVaObama pachigaro, bato ravo rakarasikirwa nezvigaro zvingasvika chiuru mumatare eparamende.
Ikozvino, maNew Democrats nevanofamba mutsoka dzavo vari kurwira kuchengetedza bato renyika.
Chirongwa chesarudzo chepakati petemu chegore rino chaonekwa kuedza kwakawanda kwekupindira neDemocratic Congressional Campaign Committee, kufarira vamiriri vezvinzvimbo pane vanopikisa vanoenderera mberi muma primaries emapato kubva kuCalifornia kuenda kuTexas kuenda kuPennsylvania. Mazuva apfuura-mushure mekuburitswa kwechivande chakanyorwa tepi yekuteerera izvo zvakafumura nzira iyo House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer akaedza kumanikidza mumiriri wekongiresi anofambira mberi kuti abude mumujaho muColorado-Mutungamiri weImba Vashoma Nancy Pelosi. akadzivirira Hoyer pamusangano wenhau.
Gare gare gore rino, sezvo sarudzo dza2020 dzichikura padhuze, DNC ichaita sarudzo nezvemitemo yebato zvine mhedzisiro mikuru pamujaho wekudomwa kwemutungamiri wenyika. Vemukati vasingade kuita demokrasi muDemocratic Party vari kuzeya zvavanoda.
Funga, semuenzaniso, mumwe agara kwenguva refu New Democrat anonzi Elaine Kamarck. Ndiye mumwe wevanhu vashoma (vese vari vatsigiri veClinton 2016) paDNC's Unity Reform Commission uye Komiti yayo ine simba yeMitemo neMitemo - ichasangana muWashington svondo rinouya kuzovhota pazvinhu zvakaita sevamiriri veDemocratic National 2020. Kokorodzano.
Kubva kuBrookings Institution, Kamarck anga ari muDNC's Mitemo uye Bylaws Committee kubvira 1997. official Brookings biography inotaura kuti "akatora chikamu nesimba mumakwikwi mana emutungamiri wenyika uye mumakongiresi gumi ekudona-kusanganisira magungano maviri eRepublican."
Iyo bio inoenderera mberi ichitaura naKamarck seizvi: "Mumakore ekuma1980, aive mumwe wevakatanga bato reNew Democrat rakabatsira kusarudza mutungamiri waBill Clinton. Akashanda muWhite House kubva 1993 kusvika 1997, kwaakagadzira nekutungamira ongororo yaClinton yeNational Performance Review, inozivikanwawo se'chirongwa chehurumende chekuvandudza.' "
Mune basa rake paMitemo neMitemo yeKomite, Kamarck chimwe chikamu chemaitiro anogona kupedzisira - sezvakakurudzirwa nebato reUnity Reform Commission iro raisanganisira Clintonites uye vanofambira mberi - kubvisa 60 muzana yevamiriri 712 varipo (vanopfuura chikamu chimwe muzvinomwe iyo yakazara) munguva yegungano renyika ra2020.
The kukanganisa uye mhedzisiro isina demokrasi yevamiriri vakuru vapfuura nhamba yavo. Pakazosvika Mbudzi 2015, Hillary Clinton akanga atowana zvisungo zveruzhinji zverutsigiro kubva ku50 muzana yevamiriri vese-masvondo gumi nerimwe chete muvhoti asati avhota mudare rehurumende kana sarudzo dzekutanga. Huwandu hwevamiriri hwakadai, hunoitwa kuti hugoneke nevakuru-vakuru vebato vari vamiriri vepamusoro, hunogona kupa kukurumidza kukuru kune mumiriri.
MaDemocrat mazhinji anoshuvira kuderedza zvakanyanya kana kubvisa vamiriri vepamusoro sevanopesana nedemocracy. Asi Kamarck ane hurongwa hwakasiyana. Haadi kubvisa vamiriri vepamusoro. Kutaura zvazviri, angada mamwe acho.
Izvo zvine musoro, kana iwe uchifunga kuti Kamarck ari kushanda kudzikisa mitero yemakambani. Ndisachigaro-sachigaro wesangano guru rebhizimisi reRATE (Reforming America's Taxes Equitably) Coalition, iro rine chinangwa chakajeka che "kudzikisa mutero wekambani."
Hurongwa hwakadai hunoitwa zvakanakisa mukufamba kwenguva nekudzipa hutongi hwezvido zvevanhu nepose pazvinogoneka, kutyira kuti mutongi gava akapukunyuka nekuderedza vatongi.
โKamarck has backed the original Unity Reform Commission proposal, but also made clear that she believes that, in the long term, more so-called peer review by veteran party leaders produces stronger presidential nominees,โ BuzzFeed yakashuma Muna April.
Pfungwa yaKamarck ndeyekuti zviremera zvebato zviongorore vamiriri. BuzzFeed yakatsanangura kuti: "Muchidzidzo chiri kuuya chegwaro remutemo reNew York University, akadaro, achakurudzira shanduko dzakati wandei kuhurongwa hwekudomwa, kubva pakuwedzera kwevamiriri kuenda kuhurongwa hutsva hwekusimbisa humbowo apo vakuru vebato vakasarudzwa. kusangana nevanokwikwidza, kubvunza zvinzvimbo zvavo, uye kupa mavhoti ekuvimba kana kusavimbika. Vachakwikwidza vanenge vatadza kuzadzisa chimwe chikamu vanorambidzwa kuita nharo kana kubva panzvimbo yevhoti, zvichienderana nekuti bato rakasarudza sei kugadzira hurongwa.
Ngatitarisanei nazvo: Hutongi hwejekerere hune njodzi kune vane masimba vanovimba nemari hombe, kusimbaradzwa kwemasangano uye nevezvenhau kuita kuda kwavo. Kumukirana kwemakore gumi aya kupokana nekusarongeka kwehupfumi - kuri mubato reOccupy uyezve mushandirapamwe wemutungamiri wenyika yaBernie Sanders - zvinogona kutyisidzira zvakanyanya kurongeka kusarongeka.
Kune avo vakatsunga kuchengetedza zvinzvimbo zvavo munzvimbo dzepamusoro dzebato reDemocratic Party, hutongi hwejekerere mukati mebato hunonzwika hunotyisa. Uye kusavimbika kwebato - uye kurasikirwa kwaro kwakakura kwezvigaro kubva kumatare ehurumende kuenda kuCapitol Hill mumakore gumi apfuura - hazviratidzike sekunetsa kune veDemocratic elites setarisiro yekuti kuwedzera kwezviitwa zveuswa kunogona kuvabvisa dzimba dzakaropafadzwa.
Sezvo Sanders akaudza mutori wenhau weNew York Times Magazine mukutanga kwe2017: "Chokwadi kune vamwe vanhu muDemocratic Party vanoda kuchengetedza chimiro. Vanoda kuburuka neTitanic chero vaine zvigaro zvekutanga. "
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